Well, as you can see from my first post, /var is already on its own partion. The reason Im wanting to do this is because Im running VMWare GSX server on this server and when I run more than one VMWare session, the /proc/kcore file grows and grows and grows. It eventually eats up /. I was going to link that to another partion, but I figured that I would not be able to with out crashing the server. Soooo, i wanted to resize the / partion. Well, If need be, I can always rebuld the server. Lord knows I need to anyway :)
Thanks for the reply... -- Joe Giles [EMAIL PROTECTED] AOL: mcigiles ------- Registered Linux User #264910 http://counter.li.org ------- Todd A. Jacobs said: > On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Joe Giles wrote: > >> I was wondering what utility I could use to shrink a partition and use >> the free space to grow another partition? Here is what I have: > > Try parted or PartitionMagic. > >> What I want to do is shrink /home (/dev/hda6) say one gig and use that >> 1 gig to grow / (/dev/hda7) partition. > > Maybe. I don't know if parted will let you do this, but you need to > shrink hda6 from the front, not the back. Growth needs to be into > contiguous free space, so you'd have to free up the gig from the start > of /home, rather than the end if you're planning to give that space > over to / on hda7. > > A better use of your time might be to figure out where all that space in > / is going. My guess is it's being gobbled by /var. Why not shrink > /home, and create a dedicated /var partition instead of dangerous > mucking around with your root partition? > > If you hose data in /home, you'll live. If you trash your root, get out > your install disks. > > -- > "Of course I'm in shape! Round's a shape, isn't it?" > > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
